#DBHangOps!

Check out the video! Hey there everybody! Coming up this Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) take part in #DBHangOps to discuss:

• Data Dictionary Corruption
  • What is it?
  • How does it happen?
  • How did you fix it?
  • What about FRM file corruption?
• MySQL Utilities (requested by Sheeri Cabral!)
  • mysqlfrm -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysqlfrm.html
    • Read about it at Chuck Bell's blog http://drcharlesbell.blogspot.com/2013/04/mysql-utilities-new-frm-reader-utility.html
  • mysqldiff -- Can be used to identify difference between database objects! http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysqldiff.html
• Benchmarking! (requested by Tim Callaghan)
  • What software do you use to benchmark?
    • See http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/benchmarks.html for more information about MySQL benchmarks.
    • pt-log-player to replay "live" traffic against the server to measure it under different levels of concurrency
    • YCSB -- Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/wiki
    • DBT2 -- http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/osdldbt/index.php?title=Main_Page
  • How do you verify proper configuration of your benchmark machines?
  • How do you ensure you're getting your money's worth on new hardware?
• MySQL Connect -- What are you excited for?

As always, check out the the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter Feed, or come right back to this blog post to get a link for the google hangout on Wednesday! Can't wait to see all of you for the conversation tomorrow!